• OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Y’all really just pick negative words at random to describe China as, I swear you picked “aristocracy” out of a hat.

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            15 hours ago

            Did you mean to say “autocracy?” Like another user said, aristocracy involves a class of nobles with inherited rights.

            Now, the system China had before the CPC came to power, that could reasonably be described as an aristocracy. But literally one of the first things that happened after the communists came to power was that that class was forcibly eliminated and their land was redistributed to the people who worked it.

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            18 hours ago

            Leadership isn’t appointed in an aristocracy, it’s inherited, so you might have chosen the absolute worst descriptor. You could have used it as an adjective, maybe, but as the description of the structure itself it’s completely moronic. Yeah China isn’t an aristocracy because the positions aren’t inhereted, there we go your mind is changed.